dvd burner kicking drive offline

statas wrote on 3/23/2003, 9:42 PM

my sony dvd burner is chained with an external drive thru firewire. when the dvd burner is on, it occationally knocks the external drive offline. this hasn't happened yet during a burn, but i haven't burned many dvds yet and worried that it could. any suggestions? i could burn via usb2 instead of keeping the burner in the firewire chain, but would there be a loss of burn speed?

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bakerja wrote on 3/24/2003, 8:23 AM

It has been my experience that the DVD burner should be on an IDE chain if at all possible. While firewire and usb2 are very convenient, I have had much greater success with IDE.

BobMoyer wrote on 3/24/2003, 1:33 PM

I have experienced that problem in the past. What I usually do now is to click on the icon in the "Task tray" that says 'unplug or eject hardware' and select that device to be disconnected. After I get the OK prompt, the CD/RW drive is basically off line...however, I still leave it powered on as it is in the firewire daisey chain. Hope that will work for you.

Bob